@article{10.1167/18.6.17,
    author = {Seemiller, Eric S. and Cumming, Bruce G. and Candy, T. Rowan},
    title = "{Human infants can generate vergence responses to retinal disparity by 5 to 10 weeks of age}",
    journal = {Journal of Vision},
    volume = {18},
    number = {6},
    pages = {17-17},
    year = {2018},
    month = {06},
    abstract = "{ Vergence is defined as a binocular eye movement during which the two eyes move in opposite directions to align to a target in depth. In adults, fine vergence control is driven primarily by interocular retinal image disparity. Although infants have not typically been shown to respond to disparity until 3 to 5 months postpartum, they have been shown to align their eyes from hours after birth. It remains unclear what drives these responses in young infants. In this experiment, 5- to 10-week-old human infants were presented with a dynamic random noise stimulus oscillating in disparity at 0.1 Hz over an amplitude of 2° for 30 s. Fourier transforms of the horizontal eye movements revealed significant disparity-driven responses at the frequency of the stimulus in over half of the tested infants. Because the stimulus updated dynamically, this experiment precluded the possibility of independent monocular fixations to a sustained target. These data demonstrate cortical binocular function in humans by five weeks, the youngest age tested here, which is as much as two months younger than previously believed. }",
    issn = {1534-7362},
    doi = {10.1167/18.6.17},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1167/18.6.17},
    eprint = {https://arvojournals.org/arvo/content\_public/journal/jov/937196/i1534-7362-18-6-17.pdf},
}